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Investors in new style bank hybrids will face much greater risk of haircuts from regulatory intervention than from a bank breaching a 5.125% common equity tier one ratio. But that is no reason to scrap the capital trigger.
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French banks have not been rushing into Russian loans for a while now, but their return in force to the latest borrowing from Rosneft has got the loans market talking. The new deal is certainly a lot more attractive than Rosneft's December 2011 loan. By holding their fire last year, the French banks may have helped push pricing up: their return might send it the other way.
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Asian bond issuers have sold a lot of deals since the start of the year, and they are now starting to pay wafer-thin yields. The twin dragons of tight pricing and oversupply risk make a drastic halt in issuance seem almost inevitable.
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French banks have not been rushing into Russian loans for a while now, but their return in force to the latest borrowing from Rosneft has got the loans market talking. The new deal is certainly a lot more attractive than Rosneft's December 2011 loan. By holding their fire last year, the French banks may have helped push pricing up: their return might send it the other way.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, price cuts are the last ditch effort of a struggling retailer and — as we now know — short selling bans are the last hiding place for regulators that have run out of ideas
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Pricing new bond issues can be a delicate affair, and never more so than when a borrower is switching old bonds for new. So the market should not be too quick to judge a hefty rally on the back of a liability management exercise.